Here I was thinking this was OS/2 Warp…
Warp is now open-source
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Re: Warp is now open-source
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel obligated to chime in here a bit. I was the Alacritty member who was contacted and who offered some feedback. I have absolutely no hard feelings. Would it have been a good idea to charge them for my time, IDK. I was in between a research role and a new job at the time and more than happy to help. Do I feel like I missed out on something, maybe a little bit, but that's more on me than them. I'm sure if I had an…
thanks for the support here. we are very grateful for the help you all provided initially, and if you are interested in sponsorship for the repo, we are also happy to provide some. alacritty is awesome
The takes in this thread are insane. There’s nowhere else to put this comment given the framing so I’m putting it here. OSS isn’t a charity movement.
Re: Warp is now open-source
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
The charitable read is that the original project team willingly worked with Warp, knowing the direction they were going. I don't know any background on the drama FWIW.
that's the correct read - we shared what we were building and they helped us integrate alacritty. it's similar to how mitchell h reached out and asked today if we wanted to integrate ghostty. we have a lot of open source library dependencies and are grateful to the folks who worked on them
I thought the negative sentiment being shared here was hyperbolic, but you look absolutely ridiculous in these comments.
"Actually, we are sure people who were critical to our success are happy they received nothing in return for their labor." <- This is you. This is what you sound like.
Re: Warp is now open-source
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't have particularly strong preference for copyleft (I use the Apache license for my personal projects), but these don't seem like particularly compelling arguments. > So if I use vim or emacs for free, or VS Code for that matter Vim and emacs both use licenses that require you to share any source code modifications if you distribute binaries that you change, so that's kind of a strange comparison. You literally…
> I don't understand why you think it would be hard to "hunt down" someone when an email is literally in every commit in the git history of open source software. I use Arch Linux, tell me which of the thousands of packages am I obligated to donate to? Im not exactly a money fountain to be giving money away to strangers I am grateful for, but it I put something on the internet as open source, for free, I dont cry if n…
> I use Arch Linux, tell me which of the thousands of packages am I obligated to donate to?
The ones that a barely-informed stranger could easily identify as having made you 7+ figures.
Re: Warp is now open-source
#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Warp founder here. Totally understood on the feedback - one thing I would call out is that we actually worked with Alacritty on the initial implementation and they were super helpful and we are grateful for their support.
I sort of can't tell if this is supposed to be a joke or not. It seems like you're explaining that in addition to not supporting the project from which your company spawned 50M, they also supplied free work for which they were never compensated. That's supposed to be better or something?
> free work for which they were never compensated. That's supposed to be better or something?
It's almost the "success" definition in the business language, isn't it?
Re: Warp is now open-source
#116Was interested to try until I saw it was no longer a terminal and is now a coding agent? There are already dozens of those, I use my terminal to launch coding agents I don't need it to be one.
Warp is still a terminal, but it also has a coding agent. no requirement to use it--and you can turn off all of the AI features if you don't want to use them at all
This is absolutely how I use it as well. Just the copy paste and search functionality is miles of any terminal I’ve ever used. He
Re: Warp is now open-source
#117Looking at the headline "Warp is now Open-Source", I really hoped that OS/2 3.0 Warp was open-sourced. :-(
Yeah, apparently this is a different Warp.
Re: Warp is now open-source
#118Earlier quoted context omitted.
I sort of can't tell if this is supposed to be a joke or not. It seems like you're explaining that in addition to not supporting the project from which your company spawned 50M, they also supplied free work for which they were never compensated. That's supposed to be better or something?
There's an interview that got scrubbed from the internet with Zach on the 20VC podcast with Harry Stebbings. This comment and its lack of self-awareness exemplify what was on display for 60 minutes. Zach is undoubtedly smart but for anyone who is not an SV insider, they would listen to that podcast they same way you are looking at this comment and wonder if it's all one big joke.
Found it here: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/dir-e3n2c-28221400
The host is absolutely insufferable.
Re: Warp is now open-source
#119Came here thinking this was about OS/2.
Re: Warp is now open-source
#120Still feel extremely negative towards this company for tweaking an Alacritty fork then using that to get a $50million venture round then giving zero money towards Alacritty, an open source library that the founder completely owes their career too. Not shocked they partnered with another company that is fine with raping the commons for profit, OpenAI. They definitely did some git cleanup to remove this fact too going…
This is what AI companies do. They steal stuff and then do not give credit to anyone, not even a "thank you". If doing so was needed to get money, that's what they'd have done. Anyways, i was very surprised to see they chose my favorite free software license -- the AGPLv3 (I like using em-dashes but i'm not a bot)
I didn't suspect you were a bot; I'm a fan of the semicolon and ()'s myself.